i can vncviewer and vinagre from the local machine and that makes sense... cuz its that machine... but whenever i ssh in i cant run it remotely and it seems to me that would be the point...
ssh -X -l <user > <ip>
is the command i use to get in so im setting the X11 forwarding
and then
vinagre <ip>:<port>
and i get
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Not running within active session)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Not running within active session)
Cannot open display:
Run 'vinagre --help' to see a full list of available command line options
or
vincviewer -displacy :0
and i get
cant display
i have been googling for days and i got nothing... i recently read there is a bug in ubuntu 10.04 ... sorry that by the way is what im running but if that is my problem how do i fix it...
seriously im stumped this has totally delayed my developing and im not sure what to do
with the utmost thankx
thom